Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smooth lawyer was trying his greatest case. It was, said one who observed it, "the gutsiest performance I've ever seen or ever heard about." For seven months the argument raged. Johnson said little, but he was listening. Clifford threw all his weight behind arguments that persuaded the President to order the partial suspension of bombing of North Viet Nam on March 31 to get talks with Hanoi under way. Again, Clifford's view held sway when bombing was halted altogether on Oct. 31 in an effort to rescue the negotiations from stalemate...
...order field. There, the President-elect may work with the Omnibus Crime Control Act, passed by the 90th Congress, to expand federal aid to local law enforcement authorities. Under the Act, Nixon's Attorney General may sanction the use of wiretapping in certain cases-authority that the Johnson Administration declined to use. Nixon may also double the size of the Justice Department's organized crime section, raise it to the status of a separate division within the agency and elevate its chief to the rank of Assistant Attorney General...
...Nixon's projected Cabinet-level Council on Urban Af fairs, he will have a hand in reshaping the nation's existing antipoverty programs. Judging from a book to be published by Macmillan in February, it will not be a gentle hand. In a searing indictment of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, Moynihan contends that the much ballyhooed effort was oversold, underplanned and seriously "flawed" in execution. Writes Moynihan in the opening words of the book: "In his first weeks in office the President had proposed 'unconditional' war on poverty; in short order that whole...
...groups of the poor sought in city after city to elbow aside mayors and established agencies and take over the programs, Johnson came to fear that he had created a political monster. At one point, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley became "mightily upset" because the federal poverty project was becoming a "champion grabber and distributor of antipoverty funds." Daley relished that role for himself, and he let Washington know that he did not like the competition. According to Moynihan, Johnson told OEO "to keep community action programs as quiet as possible...
Adulterated Efforts. As an Assistant Under Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy-Johnson Administration and author of the controversial Moynihan Report, which infuriated many black leaders with its study of the Negro family's plight, he played an important role in creating programs that were adopted by the Great Society. Unhappy with what has become of them, he charges that the efforts were all too often adulterated by politicians, "middleclass professional reformers, elite academics and intellectuals...